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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
114,092 entries
May 16, 2021 · 12:12 AM · FORMATION
Bowdoin, ME
Extremely large line of lights moving in formation (maybe two rows one slightly brighter then the other), silent and moving at the speed of a low flying aircraft. I am a pilot, for something to appear that large it would need to be close. This is what got my attention. It floated straight and went behind a taller tree along the tree line but did not appear on the other side. The trajectory would have made it vístanle as it passed by but we lost sight then. I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. Lights not extremely bright about the amount of a average star. Gave me the chills I’ve never seen anything I couldn’t somewhat explain. Very interested to see if anyone else caught a glimpse.
May 16, 2021 · 12:05 AM · OTHER
Utica, NY
Was Looking Up At The Stars When I Noticed This Weird Stick Shape Object With Glowing White Lights Moving Through The Sky Moving From North To East For About 30-45 Seconds Until It Just Disappeared. I Took My iPhone Out To Record A Video But Came Out Blurry Since iPhones Pretty Much Suck At Night Sky Video Recording.
May 16, 2021 · 12:05 AM · CIGAR
North Kingstown, RI
While standing in the parking lot at Smith’s Castle, a large cigar shaped craft appeared in the sky above us. The whole craft emitted a white glow and moved very slowly overhead. The sky was mostly clear with an occasional cloud passing by. After about 60 seconds or less of observing the object it seemed to have just “blinked” out and disappeared. I tried to film the sighting but it did not pick up on my iPhone (which I found strange because it was fairly bright and close).
May 16, 2021 · 12:03 AM · CIGAR
Clay, NY
Shortly after midnight in Clay, NY (just south of Phoenix, NY), only a few minutes after the start of Sunday May 16, 2021, and about 5-10 minutes before the crescent moon set, I looked out an upstairs window to the north into a cloudless night sky to see the stars. I saw the usual stars and planets and also an unusual light moving to the south. The light was cigar shaped (rectangular) similar to a dull fluorescent bulb with a light blue tint. Its length was about the same as the diameter of a full moon, in the east-west direction, and its brightness was about ¼ of that of the moon. After about a minute, I proceeded to wake my wife to show her the object. Although difficult for me to determine, the elevation of the object appeared to be where most airplanes fly going to the Syracuse, NY airport (say 4,000 ft. +/-) and at a distance of several miles to the north over Oswego County. The light was moving to the south-southeast at what appeared to be the typical speed of an airplane. After 3 or 4 minutes heading south, it started moving to the east for about a minute, with the light remaining in the same east-west orientation while fading from view, possibly because it moved far enough east to no longer reflect the moonlight back to us. We didn’t see any spotlights or blinking lights on the object like what would be seen on an airplane or one of the military drones that often fly out of the Syracuse airport. We didn’t hear any noise from the object through the closed window nor after we opened the window as the object faded from view. I’m a retired 64 year old civil engineer and my wife is a 63 year old registered nurse, and we have never seen a flying light/object like this before. We have lived in this same house for a little over 38 years.
May 15, 2021 · 11:39 PM · TRIANGLE
Nampa, ID
My father and I were coming back from Lake Lowell and on our way back home we noticed a long low glowing bar of light floating along the sky line. As it got closer we could see the lines around it but the other sides weren’t illuminated. Our best estimation is that it was about three football fields long. It looked like it was half the size of the town even at skyline level. It was traveling from Caldwell towards Boise at a slow cruising speed. It quickly sped up and vanished shortly after that. I got a video but it was so dark it’s hard to see anything. If a video editor can enhance the image it will be able to be seen.
May 15, 2021 · 11:37 PM · LIGHT
Emigrant, MT
On May 15, 2021 at approximately 11:30 PM, my partner and I were sitting on a rooftop looking at the stars at a home outside Emigrant, Montana. There were no clouds and we could see the stars. At approximately 11:37 PM, we noticed an object coming across the sky from the southwestern sky (near Yellowstone National Park). The object was a straight line of attached lights and it was moving in our direction. The flying object looked to be made up of over 40 white lights and appeared to be about a mile long. As it came towards our direction, I took a photograph on my Iphone. The object appeared to stall as it moved closer and the lights could not be seen as well. It appeared to remain in this location, about 10-15 miles away from where we sat, for approximately 1-2 minutes. At this point, I called a family member because I was scared and then the object started to move again towards the northwestern portion of the sky. As the flying object started moving toward! s the northeastern sky, the lights were still visible at the bottom, but there also was a shadow that was not lit up that was visible. It appeared as if the object had multiple sides and not just the bottom lights. The object made no sound and there was no sound of nightlife at that moment. (There was an owl hooting before the object appeared and stopped during the event.) Prior to this event, my dog did not want to go outside to use the restroom and was anxious when we went out on the roof to look at the stars, which was not normal behavior for my dog.
May 15, 2021 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Rochester, MI
This morning around 11:30 I seen a silver, spherical shaped UFO. As I was walking out of my house, I noticed a dot in the sky with clouds behind it. At first, I thought it was a bird extremely high up in the air, but as it continued to move straight forward at high speeds, the sunlight caught its reflection and it shined a bright flash of light, which further drew my attention to it. This is when I realized it was spherical and silver, although it also seemed to be reflecting the light surrounding it. It had to be at least 15-20,000 ft high. I continued to observe it while walking to my car, which was facing the direction it was coming from. It continued to move straight forward at a high speed. As I got into my car, it made a sudden vertical shot upwards, with a blurry kind of hue surrounding it. It was no longer visible because of how high up it was. There was no noise during this sighting.
May 15, 2021 · 11:30 PM · DISK
Star, ID
Seen what appeared to be a long moving white cloud in the night sky. It was moving across the sky slowly. No Sound. We grabbed some binoculars. Through the binoculars you could see that it was a saucer with lights in the middle of the craft and the entire craft was spinning. It when from north west and continued to the north east before I could not longer see it. I tried to get video but it did not turn out. There where four of us that seen this.
May 15, 2021 · 11:05 PM · CHANGING
Bemidji, MN
Getting out of our car in our backyard on a clear night, many stars being visible, my wife and I look up to see an amorphous group of lights, almost like one body but seemed to have several lights w/in it. It was in the northern sky, traveling NE in a pretty straight line tack. They seemed fairly high in the sky, and could tell the group of lights was moving fairly quickly since I had only about 10 or 20 secs to view in my binoculars (which I happened to have with me), before they was obscured our neighbor’s roof. My wife described the group of lights as almost looking like a caterpillar, the way it slithered across sky path; they did not seem at all like a “normal” satellite or meteorites that we have seen many times. The group of moving lights were sort of “smudgy” or glowing like some comets we’ve seen, but it was obviously within the atmosphere (not a very far away as a comet would be). It seemed to move too slowly to be a meteorite. I ran to see if I could view it from our front yard, but about 10 seconds later, it was lost in a cloud on horizon.
May 15, 2021 · 10:55 PM · CIRCLE
Holland, MI
I use the ce5 protocols and got footage totally by accident i was sitting on my porch recording and it wasn't until after I looked and tried to figure every possible scenario out and I was sitting in the dark so there's no other way my phone would capture the movement this object then I thought maybe it was a another light that I had on me but I tested that out too as well and it's zooming in you can clearly see that not anything that I've ever seen
May 15, 2021 · 10:45 PM · DISK
Randle, WA
I observed the craft with binoculars and it appeared to have windows all in a row along the side .the craft did not appear to be rotating but it appeared to be vibrating as it moved along. The craft was not making any noise. The craft was very large and was flying at a slant. We observed it until it disappeared over the horizon to the east
May 15, 2021 · 10:37 PM · OTHER
Concrete, WA
Four of us were camping at Baker Lake. We were around the fire and I looked up at the stars and I saw a linear formation of lights from behind the trees. Got up to look at it in a clearing, it was fairly close at this time and it appeared to be floating. It was not making any noise, at least not that I could hear. I could not make sense of it and called my three friends over, who all saw it and were just as taken back by it, with complete inability to explain what it could possibly be. It was fairly large at first and got smaller as it slowly moved away towards the mountains. It had approximately 10 small sqaure looking white lights on it; far enough apart to be distinguished from one another, but too close together to possibly be multiple satellites. The lights appeared to rotate. I managed to get a photo, but it was much further away at this point. It was approximately one minute of all four of us getting a good look at it closer up before it moved furthe! r over the mountains and was not as easily seen.
May 15, 2021 · 10:36 PM · CYLINDER
Longview, WA
What was seen at first was a single constant light moving towards the north sky from a southern position without sound and next to it a bright light came on next to it asmif it were another craft of some sort, and then a few seconds later the light went out, and the object continued north until out of sight. Then a few minutes later a long craft was seen moving from our west to northeast. This craft looked like a string of pearls in a row. The craft was very long and looked big as if it were in the upper atmosphere. It moved at the pace of a satellite in orbit until it was out of sight in the same direction as the other object. I took video of the object although the video is not very clear unfortunately. I will still be happy to share it.
May 15, 2021 · 10:36 PM · CIGAR
Sisters, OR
Two Dads (40+ year olds) and 2 sons (11 year olds), camping 10 miles south of Sisters, Oregon. Around 10:36pm (22:36). my son spotted the very long, illuminated craft ("Um guys, WHAT IS THAT!?"), in the northern sky, heading west to east. From our location, it was maybe 30 degrees up from the horizon. We left the campfire and quickly got our phones out to record it; the pics are poor unfortunately. It was moving slowly, and wasn't bright. Knowing that it wasn't an airplane, I flashed it a few times with a green laser, just in case it might react. It did not. I believe the craft was moving at a very high altitude. It reminded me of the SpaceX rocket re-entry, but wasn't breaking apart. I'm very familiar with stargazing, and we had just watched the ISS fly by (which had a -4.0 brightness = very bright!) and we had also watched starlink satellites fly over as well. It was very exciting!
May 15, 2021 · 10:35 PM · CIGAR
Vancouver, WA
Around 10:30pm my daughter, age 20 called me and had told me to come outside there was something weird in the sky. Once outside I had witnessed with Her a oblong white thing traveling at a fairly slow speed from the west to the east in the sky north of our position. It was fairly large, I would say it's length was about that of a dime held up at arm's length, fairly thin and was white against the night sky, not super bright. There were times it seemed to be a little brighter but not much so I am not certain if that was the case or it was just my eyes, it was not at any point bright enough to capture on a cell phone for a video. It was horizontal in the sky and we witnessed it until we could no longer see it because its view had been obstructed by trees, I had witnessed it for approximately a minute to a minute and a half and my daughter had witnessed it approximately two to three minutes.
May 15, 2021 · 10:35 PM · CIGAR
Bonners Ferry, ID
May 15, 2021 at approximately 2235: Standing on my porch looking north, northwest (in direction of Boundary County, Idaho airport) when I saw something not a star but thought maybe a comet but even that was not correct. It appeared almost vertical (not quite vertical – slanted) above the horizon but then while I was looking for a camera it was almost directly in front of me moving slowly from west to east. I tried to take pictures (should have went for my binoculars) but the flash went off and I couldn’t get the camera to focus. At 2238 (confirmed on my phone), I phone-called a colleague who lives close by (a retired fighter pilot) to look and confirm that it was not the “string-of-pearls” Starlink we’d both seen before. He saw it as well and agreed it was not the Starlink we’d previously seen and also did not know what it was. To me, from my vantage point, it was a series of white lights – steady, not flashing– as if a bus or subway car with windows and lights shining through. I could not tell if it was a solid object, but from the lights it appeared to be the classic “cigar” shaped UFO, though it could have had more depth. But again, from my vantage point, I could not determine if and how much depth it may have had. I thought it was low in the sky, maybe 5K feet high at most, and I lost it in the trees as it traveled west towards the Montana border. It did not make a sound
May 15, 2021 · 10:35 PM · CIGAR
Jacksonville, OR
Upon stepping out from my hotel room and walking the 75' or so feet to an area outside close to street. that I tend to smoke while I'm staying here, I looked up to North to check weather (clouds?) like I often do and immediately saw a slightly illuminated slightly hazy, long object moving that I first thought appeared like a comet with tail but realized shape was consistent end to end; a cigar shape for lack of more specific description. Slightly tapered on end closest to me. And same taper it seemed at other end. Moving consistent speed. I thought, well, that's probably a plane lining up for Medford Airport but as it traveled slightly North-NorthEast at a consistent speed, there was never a single light blinking or otherwise as with an airplane. Nor shape of a tail or wings. And since I live in an area close to an airport, I have never seen a plane in a clear sky without a single light flashing at some point. And it almost appeared that the illumination might have been from the city lights of the Rogue Valley cities below and to East of object. Maybe not. The entire sighting was 1 and 1/2 minutes tops at 10:35pm. Clear sky, some stars visible although there was immediate light pollution in area. Object elevation? Hard to say. Perhaps 7 to 10,000ft? If so, object would have been several hundred feet long. At least a couple hundred. No apparent change of course. Haven't quite seen anything like it although it was subtle and not at all clearly visible.
May 15, 2021 · 10:35 PM · RECTANGLE
Carson, WA
At approximately 10:35 PM, my female companion noticed a bar of light moving across the sky behind the treetops of a nearby mountain. The first words uttered about the object were, "Is that a train?". Moments later the bar of light moved out of the wooded treetops and into the sky (it had been in the sky all along, but was merely obscured by the trees). It was a horizontal flat line of light punctuated by several brighter circular points along the line. How distant the object was was difficult to discern, but seemed to be flying lower than the planes in the night sky, and was 5-8x the size in our field of view. It moved slowly from West to East across the sky. It wasn't long before it began to go from completely horizontal to being at a 45-60 degree angle, without changing its trajectory or movement pattern. It was at some point during this transition that I took the photo, wherein you can see the object at around 30 degrees from its horizontal pos! ition. The camera I used was on a new Samsung phone, which has a low light mode that leaves the shutter open for 3 seconds. The photo appears to show a dark outline, possibly illuminated by similar lights on the other side of the craft.
May 15, 2021 · 10:30 PM · CYLINDER
Conconully, WA
On a camping trip, and after my wife went to bed I was standing at the campfire looking up at all of the stars. I saw a long patch of white behind the tree tops and thought it was a comet but it did not streak out from the trees. Then it slowly started moving into the open sky. It stood out as the brightest thing in the sky. Like neon light tubing. The tube inside the fuzzy light looked like a jet airline body. No wings or tail, and as long as a plane .There were black archtop spots across the lower half. Close together with white between them. the object was a dull white on the upper half , and around the dark spots. This is NO joke . I could clearly see it !!! It came over the campground area and moved off to the east . no noise,just coasting along.They were not hiding it at all. WITH MY OWN EYES. It is true. It moved off over the Okanogon Reservation glowing bright. IF anyone else saw it please speak out.Conconully to OMAK area WOW!
May 15, 2021 · 10:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Glasgow, MT
Object was rectangular in shape approximately 2 city blocks long by 2-3 stories high and emitting a bright white light from within from one end to the other. I estimate it was 1/2 mile from me at an altitude of approximately 1500 feet, flying a set trajectory from west to east down the middle of Fort Peck Lake at Fourchette Bay, speed approximately 100-150 mph. It made no sound on a particularly quiet night. I am in possession of a picture of this object.
May 15, 2021 · 10:30 PM · CYLINDER
Ferndale, WA
my daughter and i saw what appeared to be what i can only describe as a sparkler in the sky. the object changed direction and headed east and as it came in to view the craft appeared to be three section that where linked like semi trailers would be. the sections glowed green that my wife described as "like a glow stick" the three sections had what appeared to be dark black struts holding the frame of the craft together. the craft also had a metallic, and for lack of a better term, "cab" that seemed to be pulling the object. the object seemed to be in no hurry and we watched the object until it disappeared from view behind a stand of trees.
May 15, 2021 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Kissimmee, FL
I was outside preying looked up, and the picture says it all. I usually have about 3 sightings a week where I am.
May 15, 2021 · 10:06 PM · LIGHT
Chautauqua Lake, NY
My friend and I were fishing heading South from Bemus Point toward Celeron to dock his pontoon boat. I looked up and directly above the boat was a bright white light heading west to east over the lake, about the speed of an airplane. The light looked like a star, but was much brighter and larger. It was traveling quickly, as fast as a plane would, but it was well below where planes and jets fly, maybe a few hundred feet above the boat. I pointed it out to my friend who confirmed he saw it too, which was a coincidence because we had discussed recent news reports of UFOs earlier in the evening. As we continued to watch it, the light suddenly faded away into clear sky A few minutes later I looked up and the same or similar light object was again above the boat as we traveled south. Again, it move eastward and vanished in approximately the same location as the first object, but instead of fading away, I would describe it as vanishing instantly. At that po! int, I sent another friend of mine a text message at 10:08pm that we just saw two UFOs in the sky above the lake. At 10:21 again, the same or similar light appeared above the boat (lat: 42.124, long -79.354). I was able to video record the object as it tracked above us, passing well beneath a passenger jet that was also in the sky, and over toward the eastern side of the lake. It went further than the other objects and didn’t vanish. It paused, turned south east and began tracking us down the lake until we lost sight of it. Given the darkness of the night and fact that I only had a cell phone, the video is poor quality but contains our description of the events. Several minutes later, we spotted another light above the boat moving west but vanishing before I could get it on video. Another few minutes later we spotted a sixth light, this time much higher in the sky, before it flashed a red light and appeared to split into two parts while vanishing.
May 15, 2021 · 10:00 PM · DISK
Fourchette Bay, MT
I was on a fishing trip and camped at Fourchette Bay on Fort Peck Reservoir when I went to bed early and got up sometime in the middle of the night between 10:00 pm and 4:00 am to relieve myself. My camera and my cell phone were in the boat so I didn’t know what exact time it was. The coyotes were howling and the thousands of stars were big and bright as I have ever seen them. There is no light pollution in the middle of the prairie land. I walked around my truck to relieve myself when I glanced up at the sky and saw a flash of bright light that looked like a comet, a way bigger flash than a shooting star. I said to myself, “cool, a comet,” but I was more interested in receiving my full bladder. When I finished relieving myself, I again glanced up to see the “comet” only to see that it had turned into a very large, disc-like shape. It resembled the horizontal shape of a frisbee. Since I didn’t have a photo, I drew what I saw over photos I had taken of the skyline the night before this happened: Comet looking flash of light:  Turned into this shape:  I was in awe and I think my jaw had dropped to the ground. The coyotes had stopped howling and there was absolutely no sound from this craft that was hovering just above the skyline. It started slowly to move east and simultaneously lengthen its shape. It moved alongside the reservoir toward Glasgow Montana and Fort Peck Dam. Fourchette Bay is at least 366 miles from Glasgow according to google. When I saw the disc a quarter of a mile atop the hill from our campsite, I’m guessing the spacecraft was at least the length of a football field. The middle of it was filled with a completely bright, white light—as bright as the brightest LED light there is and it had a luminous blue hue surrounding it. I thought about getting my camera out of the boat but I got scared thinking this thing may see me and snatch me up. I became nervous but not terrified and decided to hide myself behind my truck. As I watched this thing move laterally and slowly eastward, it lengthen as it moved. Aft! er it moved further away, and I couldn’t tell if it was a mile long, 5 miles long, or a 100 miles long, or how fast it was really going. I was so in awe I didn’t even think to wake any of my friends. When I told them the next morning of what I had witnessed, they were silent and probably thinking I was nuts! I really don’t care if anyone believes me. It has taken me 3 months to digest this experience. I finally found your website and looked at the reports and this report may be the same craft witnessed by 3 more people:  I would like to communicate with them and see their photo, so if there is a way to talk with them it would be through you folks. I know myself well enough to know I don’t have the imagination to make this experience up. My perspective about the reality of our world has changed. I can no longer look at the sky as I once did. I now am open more than ever to all possibilities of this reality being more than what our senses tell us…. This was an experience that haunts me everyday and now I want to know more.